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SUMMARY AND HIGHLIGHTS Increasing need dominated the world food scene in
1965. Population continued to expand faster than food
production in many developing countries. World food
production continued to lag behind world population
growth.
Severe drought conditions plagued India, Pakistan,
and parts of Africa, creating new crises in those areas.
In Vietnam, the United States faced special problems
of emergency feeding of refuigees as well as massive food
aid programs in support of economic stabilization in a
counterinsurgency environment.
At the same time, 1965 was a year of encouraging
advances in man's quest for freedom friom hunger.
Food aid gained increasing recognition as a vital factor
in economic development. The importance of nutrition
was hetter reflected in programming. The establishment
of a permanent World Food Program of the United
Nations provided a good beginning toward the creation
of a truly multilateral approach to world food problems.
U.S. agricultural markets overseas were expanded.
Sales for dollars and other h.'rd currencies increased as
world markets for food and fiber set new records.
The Food for Peace program continued to serve the
United States both as a flexible instrument of foreign
policy and as a humanitarian institution without parallel
in modern history.
This program is carried out under Public Law 480 (the
Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of
1954), as amended.
During more than a decade of operation, the original
Act has been extensively amended to meet changing
conditions. Today, Food for Peace is operated under
four titles.
Primitive farming methods hold food Title I, which was the heart of the original enactment,
production down in many nations with provides for the sale of U.S. agricultural comnodities to
soaring population rates. Food for Peace
helps tide countries over while they strive friendly countries with payment in the currency of the
to improve their own agriculture, recipient country.
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